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One user wrote: 'I'm not sure this is real, but if it is, shame on these people for killing it! A snake that big has probably been alive for a very long time now, just to be killed for a few pictures?? What a waste...'

The Guinness World Record for the longest snake in captivity is currently held by Medusa, a snake in Kansas City, US, which measures 25 ft 2in long.

The Belo Monte Dam is a hydroelectric dam complex under construction on the Xingu River.

It is set to be the fourth-largest dam installation in the world behind the Three Gorges Dam in China.

A video shows the anaconda was chained to a crane and later lifted up to reveal its yellow spotted belly

The Belo Monte Dam is a hydroelectric dam complex under construction on the Xingu River in Para, Brazil